Nelly-Eve Rajotte. The trees talk to each other at 220 Hertz, 2024. 3-channel video installation, 4K, colour, generative sound, 25 min, modular synthesizer, electrodes, and tree.
Credits:
Volumetric Cinematography / VFX Artist / Software Developer : Codrin-Mihail Tablan Negrei
Trees communicate with each other at 220 hertz(2024) is an immersive video installation combining moving image, generative sound, and organic technological devices. Presented on three 4K channels and accompanied by a modular synthesizer connected to electrodes placed on a tree, the work offers a sensory experience that brings nature, technology, and the romantic imagination into dialogue.
Drawing inspiration from the boreal forest, the installation evokes the sublime landscape tradition explored by Caspar David Friedrich and J.M.W. Turner. It repositions the viewer within a space where emotion and infinity prevail over Cartesian rationality, inviting an intimate confrontation between the self and the vastness of the external world.
By addressing climate change and the disappearance of species, the artist adopts an empathetic and contemplative stance. Through LiDAR scanning, she digitally archives endangered sites, building a three-dimensional memory that questions non-human modes of capturing the landscape.
Oscillating between spectrality and preservation, the work creates a cinematic space where the viewer actively participates, moving between observation and immersion. Presented at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal beginning April 11, 2024, it invites reflection on the fragility of the living world and on new forms of technological memory..
thanks:
Remerciements : Richard Lapointe Expertise laser 3D – iSCAN 3D,
Conception et fabrication du socle modulaire : SSSVLL-Guillaume Sasseville assisté de Gabrielle Andrea Ouellette
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
exhibitions:
2026
Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 Hz ,BANG, Chicoutimi, CA
2025
Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 Hz Contemporary Calgary, Calgary, CA, Curator Mona Filip
Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 Hz, Emerson Contemporary, Boston, US, Curator Shana Dumont Garr
2024
Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 Hz, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), Curator Marie-Eve Beaupré
2025.11.17
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